Join us on Thursday, Nov. 2 at 4 p.m. in the Ken Lepin Building for the environmental science seminar series with Dr. John Richardson, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC.

Details of the seminar:

Land-uses, such as forestry and urbanization, impact freshwaters and their associated riparian areas.

We can think of these impacts as both landscape-scale experiments, and an opportunity to find better ways to protect our environment.

Understanding the processes by which land-use impacts ecosystems and biodiversity leads to clearer solutions.

Over the past several decades we have used this approach to develop mechanistic understanding of how land and water are connected, including through resource flows across their boundaries (meta-ecosystems).

We have linked small-scale, process-based experiments and large-scale, landscape manipulations to determine which mechanisms are most impactful.

We have been able to demonstrate that there are solutions to have better protection, while we still enable sustainable industries.